The White Raven: A Cinematic Tactical RPG

After two years, GatherRound Games has released their first peek at their upcoming Fire Emblem-style tactical game.

July 6, 2024 · 4 min · 704 words · Tipa

Nemesis: The Board Game

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. You’ve been awakened from hibernation by your starship’s AI. Something has gone wrong. It’s… Aliens. I mean Intruders.

July 3, 2024 · 5 min · 992 words · Tipa

Origins 2024 Recap

This was my first Origins. It was a little overwhelming, but I’ll do better, next time.

June 26, 2024 · 6 min · 1193 words · Tipa

It's not writer's block, it's distraction

I wanted to write about Origins 2024, but then I just got to wondering if I could write an aquarium simulator for an ASCII terminal, and eventually this happened.

June 25, 2024 · 1 min · 44 words · Tipa

Valheim: The Endless Corpse Run

Getting ready for killing the Goblin King was bad enough. Mistlands is worse.

June 17, 2024 · 5 min · 1008 words · Tipa

HeroQuest: Return to Barak-Tor

It’s the final quest of the starter campaign. How was it? Is this game even worth playing in 2024?

June 12, 2024 · 2 min · 386 words · Tipa

SacriFire: A love letter to the golden age of JRPGS

Pixelated Milk’s new game in development, SacriFire, dropped their open playtest this weekend. This is the first time that even the game’s Kickstarter backers have been able to play the game, and… this game isn’t what I expected. That’s not a bad thing, at all. It’s because in this golden age of JRPGs, I was playing the Final Fantasies, the Breaths of Fire, the turn-based choose-your-attack-from-a-menu kind of JRPGs. And I really, really liked them. ...

June 10, 2024 · 7 min · 1350 words · Tipa

Retro Haul: Tactics and Sea Monkeys

We found ourselves once again awash in a sea of retro games. We found some winners, maybe…?

June 9, 2024 · 6 min · 1264 words · Tipa

Valheim: Ashenlands Bound

I didn’t think I’d be playing Valheim again, but here we are. Let’s try something different, this time.

June 4, 2024 · 3 min · 477 words · Tipa

Retro Game Haul: Tron Deadly Discs and Reversi

The sale of the Intellivision brand to the Atari brand means it’s finally legal for me to play Intellivision games after only 40 years.

May 25, 2024 · 6 min · 1127 words · Tipa